SUMMARY: Current law gives the Oregon Fish and Wildlife
Commission the authority to manage wildlife. Measure provides
that this authority would be exclusive. Measure repeals all laws
other than legislation and Commission rules enacted since 1975
that regulate time, place and manner of taking wildlife by angling,
hunting or trapping, including the 1994 bear/cougar hunting ban
initiative. That initiative banning use of bait or dogs to trap
or hunt black bear and cougar was approved by vote of the people
in the November, 1994 election.